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  1. The Mysterious Disappearance MT3000

    The Mysterious Disappearance

    By Kirt Shineman.

    Product Code: MT3000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m, 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 100 min.
    It is December 1975, after Christmas, and Agatha Christie must finish her autobiography and the final novel before the new year. Yet, Agatha is fixated on an event in her past when Nancy Neele stole her husband. With Mary Westmacott’s help, they contemplate what it would be like to kill Nancy. Even though Agatha considered murdering Nancy, did she really do it, or is her reality disappearing? Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. Miss Holmes Returns MS7000

    Miss Holmes Returns

    By Christopher M. Walsh. Based on characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    Product Code: MS7000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3 to 5m., 6 to 7w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    A nurse and activist finds herself on the run, wanted for murder. Pursued by authorities who choose to ignore a clear case of self-defense due to her Indian heritage and influence from sinister figures from the shadowy criminal underworld, she turns to Miss Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Dorothy Watson for help. Miss Holmes Returns explores the added challenges and risks faced by these iconic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle characters if they were women, while also examining the intersections of sexism, classism and racism. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. Night Night, Roger Roger N93000

    Night Night, Roger Roger

    By Roni Ragone.

    Product Code: N93000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | TYA
    • 2 to 5m., 2 to 5w., 2 to 15 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    It’s midnight, but that doesn’t mean the world slows down. Night Night, Roger Roger is a fanciful comedy about the world after the sun goes down. Roller-skating Nanas, kids with tin cans, literary-obsessed vampires, clumsy security guards, kids without tin cans, quirky game show hosts and more. This play is a plea for every person to stop growing up so fast—take your moment with the universe and enjoy it. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd MS6000

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    Adapted by Philip Grecian. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie.

    Product Code: MS6000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7 to 8m., 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    In the small village of King’s Abbot, Mrs. Ferrars admits to her fiancé, Roger Ackroyd, that she had murdered her husband a year earlier and was being blackmailed to keep the murder a secret. Later, Ackroyd himself is murdered as he sits in his study, and detective Hercule Poirot is called out of retirement to investigate. Every servant and acquaintance in the household at the time of Ackroyd’s murder has something to hide—but who did it? And why? Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Escaping the Labyrinth

    Escaping the Labyrinth

    By Thomas Hischak.

    Product Code: E97000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3 to 7m., 1 to 3w.
    • 95 min.
    In 1951, Bud encounters a disconcerting man who reveals himself to be a Greek god seeking passage to the Underworld to finally be at peace. Bud dismisses the man as crazy, but seven years later, he finds and falls in love with a waitress whom he knows to be the goddess Artemis. She flees, and for the next 40 years, Bud encounters various gods and goddesses in disguise, but not her. In the end, an elderly Bud finally finds Artemis, who invites him to join her in the Underworld, where they can spend eternity together. Learn More
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  6. MLM Is for Murder (or, Your Side Hustle Is Killing Us)

    MLM Is for Murder (or, Your Side Hustle Is Killing Us)

    By John Bavoso.

    Product Code: MS1000

    • Comedy | Satire
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 4w.
    • 120 min.
    Side hustles—it seems like everybody has at least one these days. For Minerva Ross, it is to write and narrate her own feminist true crime podcast about how and why women commit murder. Across the country, Felicity Evanston has just started selling ridiculously patterned leggings for a multilevel marketing company. The two haven’t crossed paths in years, but when Felicity starts killing off her competition, both women suddenly experience the kind of overnight success they’ve been so desperately craving. Learn More
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  7. The Café Mocha Murders

    The Café Mocha Murders

    By Deanna Strasse.

    Product Code: CT3000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 5w.
    • 90 min.
    Despite the raging storm outside, it seems like a perfectly normal night for an employee meeting at the local coffee shop, The Bean Shack. That is until the lights go out, and someone winds up dead. In this over-the-top whodunit, it’s all about latte art, caffeine content and the imminent threat of death. Learn More
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  8. Madrigal in Black and White

    Madrigal in Black and White

    Product Code: MS4000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4w.

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    A chance encounter between two young women—one Black, one white—escalates into the beginning of a relationship, despite the warnings of their uncensored alter-egos bearing the burden of social history. Learn More
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  9. The Hero Twins: Blood Race HH9000

    The Hero Twins: Blood Race

    By Ramon Esquivel.

    Product Code: HH9000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 2m., 2 to 3w., 2 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.
    The winner of the Blood Race—an ancient competition that takes place in the underworld—rules the capital city and all the people who labor for it, while the loser remains trapped in the underworld. Cricket and Moth have trained their entire lives to win, but when Moth learns the truth of the Blood Race, she is faced with a choice that could turn the world upside down. Inspired by classic Mayan narratives, The Hero Twins: Blood Race is an action-filled adventure that is also an allegory about inequality, justice and liberation. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  10. Yana Wana’s Legend of the Bluebonnet Y37000

    Yana Wana's Legend of the Bluebonnet

    By María F. Rocha and Roxanne Schroeder-Arce. Music and lyrics by Héctor Martínez Morales.

    Product Code: Y37000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 2m., 5w., 2 to 6 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    Thirteen-year-old Maria is having trouble in school, so her mom sends her to stay with her Coahuiltecan grandmother for discipline and perspective. There, Maria is told the story of Yana Wana, who followed a revered deer to find water and save her people. Yana Wana’s story gives Maria a renewed sense of self and family pride. A beautiful, original play that illustrates the power of ancestral heritage and offers a seldom-seen glimpse into the timeless spirituality of Indigenous people. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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